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Dell Venue 8 Pro Windows 8.1 Tablet Review
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May 30, 2025
Dave Taylor - of http://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ - reviews the Dell Venue 8 Pro and really likes what he finds. It's a serious competitor to the iPad at half the price, and with full Windows 8.1, it offers a lot of power and apps too. Oh, and the Intel Bay Trail processor makes it lightning fast too...
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hi Dave Taylor here again and this time
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I'm looking at the Dell Venue 8 Pro
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that's this tablet and you know I've
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spent a lot of time working with iPad
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tablets of different sizes and I
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actually have an iPad Mini here for
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comparison purposes but there's some
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about this Dell Venue 8 that actually is
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pretty cool um the first thing is it
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runs Windows 8.1 and you're going to say
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uh window window yeah I don't know 88.1
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but here's the thing is that when you
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have Windows on a touch device it makes
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a lot more sense and it works a whole
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lot better and this thing is just
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lightning fast and it really is
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basically the same dimensions as the
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iPad Mini except the screen's bigger so
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if we compare the two let me just get
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this one to wake up
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too so here's the
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iPad and here's the Dell Venue and you
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can see if we line up the screens on one
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end the Dell has a good inch inch and a
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half of extra screen and since it can
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Orient itself so easily for different
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ways that you might hold it that it
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makes it as if like if you're reading a
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book for example the book's just a
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little taller and the other thing that's
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really nice about this is that with its
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really high density screen so it's like
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a retina display they can't call it that
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um and it's fast performance and 64 G
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gig of space that's pretty nice this was
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only
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$299 and here's the amazing thing is
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that if you really keep your eye out you
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can find these things for 99 bucks the
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Microsoft store itself just a couple of
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days ago was running a just a doorbuster
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sale and they were selling these for 99
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bucks and for a Venue 8 Pro that's
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pretty sweet and here's another thing to
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think about the reason this is fast is
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cuz this is using the Intel Bay tril CPU
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what's that it's a low power super high
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performance CPU so this thing just moves
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super fast it's kind of hard for me to
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show you but let me just show you for
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example let's see let's go
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to my desktop so literally just a touch
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and boom I'm there you know so you look
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at that and you're like well yeah that's
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kind of what my PC does that's what my
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tablet would do but this is just a
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tablet so not my PC or tablet this is
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what my PC or my laptop might do but
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there a whole lot bigger to have that
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power this is just a tablet and as you
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can see it's about as thin as it can get
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lightweight very easy to hold with one
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hand I would say if you're looking for a
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tablet this season and you really don't
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want to just jump into the Apple
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bandwagon and you know you have to live
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in the Apple ecosystem it's really not
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easy to use these without that this is
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running full Windows 8.1 so for example
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I just this morning hooked up Sky Drive
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and now when I take screen screen
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captures on this or photos on this
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instantly and automatically via the
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cloud they're available on every other
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device I own so it's incredibly easy to
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share this with for example my desktop
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computer so really impressed with this
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this is something I would really
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recommend you check out this is the Dell
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Venue 8 Pro um let's go back to the home
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and here's something worth noting is
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that on the side the buttons look kind
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of like you're running on a smartphone
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but there's one more button on the top
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and what that button does is that's the
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Windows button so on some Windows tablet
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you'll find that it's on the front
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surface this is on the edge very
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convenient once you get the hang of that
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it just makes it super easy to get to
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your start tiles which of course you can
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then you know move around you can find
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all your apps so all General Windows 8
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so Dell Venue 8 Pro this is Dave Taylor
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saying here's another one to check out
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and I hope that you find it as useful
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and interesting as I do
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see you
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soon
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